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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

A Bible Study on the Lord's Supper

Jesus said, “Do this in remembrance of Me.”(NAS, NIV, NKJV, Amplified) (1 Corinthians 11:24-25; Luke 22:19)

1) How many loaves did Jesus take? (Matthew 26.26)
2) What kind of bread did Jesus take? (Matthew 26:17; Exodus 12:15, 19-20)
3) What drink did Jesus take? (Matthew 26:27-29)
4) Did Jesus drink of the “fruit of the vine”?
(Matthew 26:29, Mark 14:24-25)
5) How many cups did Jesus take? (Matthew 26:27)
6) How many cups did Jesus give to His disciples? (Mark 14:23)
7) What did the disciples do ? (Mark 14:23)

What do the symbols of the Lord’s Supper represent?
1) What does the bread represent ? (Matthew 26:26)
2) We are “one body” because we all ______ of the _____ loaf
(1 Corinthians 10:16)
3) Is the church, the spiritual “body of Christ”?
(Colossians 1:18; Ephesians 1 ;22-23)
4) What does the one loaf here represent?
(1 Corinthians 10:16-17)
5) When and how do we illustrate the unity of the church?
6) What does the fruit of the vine represent? (Matthew 26:28)
7) Is the blood of Christ the same identical thing as the New Covenant?(Hebrews 9:15-20)
8) If the fruit of the vine represents the blood of Jesus, what represents the covenant? (Luke 22:20; 1 Corinthians 11:25)

The relationship between the Passover and the Lord’s Supper.
1) What was to be killed and cooked and eaten whole (unbroken)?
(Exodus 12:3-20, 43-49; 13:6-9)
2) Was the Passover Lamb a “type” or “shadow” of Christ?
(John 1:29; 1 Corinthians 5:7)
3) Was Christ’s body physically whole (unbroken)?
(John 19:32-36)
4) What Scripture do you think this fulfilled?
5) When was the Lord’s Supper instituted? (Luke 22:7-8)
6) How many loaves must be used to figuratively represent Christ’s body?
7)
Was any “leavening” or yeast (which represents sin) allowed during the Passover week?
(Exodus 13:6-9; 1 Corinthians 5:7-8)
8) Could the bread or the “fruit of the vine” have contained leavening or yeast, then?

Fill in the following summary of the spiritual representations contained in the Lord’s Supper:
1)
_______________________ represents the body of Christ.
2) _______________________ represents the blood of Christ.
3) _______________________ represents the New Covenant.

What is the purpose of the Lord’s Supper?
1) What is it’s purpose? (1 Corinthians 11:24)
2) Was Christ’s body physically “broken”, or figuratively “broken” by death? (John 19:32-36)
4) What else does the one loaf represent?
(1 Corinthians 10:16-17)
5) Do we illustrate the unity of the church by partaking of the one loaf as Christ directed?
6) What would we illustrate by using multiple loaves and multiple cups in the Lord’s Supper?

The importance of partaking properly of the Lord’s Supper.
1) Can we bring judgment upon ourselves if we partake in an improper manner?(1 Corinthians 11:29-30)
2) What are we to do before we partake of the Lord’s Supper?
(1 Corinthians 11:28-32)

Do we have authority to change the Lord’s Supper?
1) If some element of the Lord’s supper has a spiritual meaning, can we alter that particular element in any way?
2) If Jesus said. “Do this ... in remembrance of Me.” can we change what He did in observing His Supper and still honor Him?

When are Christians to partake of the Lord’s Supper?
1) For what purpose did the disciples come together?
(Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 11;18-22, esp. 20; 10:16)
2) On what day did they do this?
(Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:1-2; Revelation 1:10)
3) Remembering the purpose of the Lord’s Supper, Acts 2:41-42, the day of Jesus’ resurrection (John 20:1-2; Luke 24:1-6), Jesus’ appearances on the “first day” (John 20:19-20; Luke. 24:13-15), can it be necessarily inferred that the disciples met to partake of the Lord’s Supper every “first day” as part of the worship service (from Acts 20:7)?
4) When, then, should Christians partake of the Lord’s Supper?

Who breaks the bread in the Lord’s Supper?
1) Who breaks the bread in the Lord’s Supper?
(1 Corinthians 10:16-17)
2)
Is each person, then, to break off a piece as they partake of the loaf?
3) Is the cup also to be passed to each person as they partake of the grape-juice? (Mark 14:23)

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